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Andrew Gray
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Today's footnote: James Sadleir, MP for Tipperary 1852-57. In Feb 1856, the bank he chaired collapsed after his brother abstracted £288,000 from it (and then killed himself); by the time
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Trying to imagine explaining what happens next to a politician from thirty years ago. "Oh, the current cabinet? Major's still around. Bit of an elder statesman. We found out about
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Interesting: a decade after the Reform Act, a petition from Woodstock complaining that the Duke of Marlborough still had undue influence over the seat. Wonder how common petitions like this
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An oddity today: MPs who have voluntarily resigned their seats and then come back for a *different* seat in the same Parliament. Quite a lot of "well, I'd just prefer
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Yesterday I saw a tweet - and promptly lost it, sorry whoever it was - wondering about 'anti-bellwethers', seats in elections that always vote for the losing side. So, of
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